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Old 13th January 2017, 02:24 PM
MikkiJayne MikkiJayne is offline
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Interestingly, the Leaf has a single reduction gear of 7.9377. The motor has a top speed of 10,390 rpm, so with the D2's tyres that would give a top speed of 100mph which is probably adequate

I still think you'd need two of them to have acceptable performance in a D2 though, since 11 seconds to 60 is a bit embarrassing for a car like that. It'd be relatively simple to fit in the front, but a little tricker to put in the back unless you decouple the controller hardware on top from the drive system. You could probably just extend the cables and put that in the boot though. The subframe may need a chunk of work to fit the drive in it too, since it looks quite wide.



If you could use an aftermarket controller with it then it'd be relatively simple to tie both drives together, electrically.

Two of these are a little heavier than the 5HP24, but the fuel tank goes as does the propshaft and rear diff so I reckon that's about even, leaving a good 250Kg left for batteries. The Leaf battery is 300Kg, so thats not far off.

Range would be a bit pants - probably only 50-60 miles. It'd be a good commuting car though
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